Last week there were X7 and X10 events that took place back-to-back.
Tuesday's flare went off the scale; researchers say it was "well above X20". A precise description is difficult because some monitoring satellites were briefly blinded the scale of the event.
[l]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3242353.stm[/l]
Has anyone seen any aurora's lately? What is going on? Any theories?